學英語環遊世界 第404:如何增進自己的英文寫作能力？
1113 如何增進自己的英文寫作能力？
1. 開始每天寫英語日記。
2. 閱讀大量英語的書籍和文章，你喜歡的主題，並且裏面不會有超過20%你不懂的東西。
3. 交往一些外國的筆友。
4. 寫完之後，找專業的老師或是英語爲母語的朋友給你批改糾正下。
An idea that helps my students learn in an interesting way
I have always had English speaking friends, however, most of my Chinese students don’t have such luck. About 10 years ago, I was a language instructor for the employees at EA games and got to know Anthony, a Korean American and the game producer who just relocated from the U.S. Anthony was really outgoing and friendly, and loved making friends. We hit it off in the first class. Although we were teacher and student, we usually went for a drink and chatted for hours after work. I also enjoyed showing him around Shanghai. One time he recommended me saying that I was probably the coolest mandarin teacher in China. That touched me a lot.
He told me back home he really enjoyed CouchSurfing, which is to stay overnight on a friend's (or even a stranger's) couch. That was the first time I heard about such a way to travel and live! My horizon widened a bit more every time I spoke to him. I also wanted my students to have this kind of magical experience because language learning could be so much fun when you’re learning from different cultures. It was a shame that Anthony only had some opportunities to practice a few sentences of Mandarin in my class. So an idea came to my mind; I made my students teach him Mandarin after class. They would go to a cafe and had a mission to speak to Anthony about one topic in Mandarin for about 30 minutes. That activity helped my students use what they knew in English to express themselves, and Anthony got to learn a few more new sentences in Mandarin as well as experience speaking to different people locally.
我一直身邊不乏講英語的朋友，然而我大多數的學生並沒有學習的環境，十年前我在上海的EA Games教授英語還有漢語，認識了剛剛從美國過來工作的遊戲製作人Anthony，Anthony非常的大方開朗，就是那種特別會交朋友的那種人，和我一拍即合，我們雖然是師生關係，但是下班總是會一起喝一杯，我喜歡帶他到處逛上海，後來有一次他在他的FB上面推薦我，說我大概是全中國最酷的漢語老師，讓我十分感動！
他告訴我，在美國的時候有一個嗜好就是CouchSurfing 沙發衝浪，那是我第一次聽到這樣的旅行方式，所以每一次和他說話都讓我眼界變寬了！我也很希望我的學生有機會有這樣的神奇體驗，因爲和不同文化的人學習真的很有趣。我想到Anthony除了和我講幾句漢語就沒有什麼太多練習的機會，所以我靈機一動，就讓我的學生開始輪流教他漢語，他們會相約一個咖啡廳然後用30分鐘解釋中文的一個主題給Anthony聽，因爲這個活動讓我的學生也充分的運用到了英語，Anthony也有機會學習到新的漢語和不同人說話的經驗。
結論：記住，英語的實力是真正在你能夠應用了多少，而非學了多少！用在文化交流或者是幫助別人學習漢語就是一個一石二鳥的方式！如果你身邊沒有外國友人的話可以利用italki、或者是hello talk app找外國友人練習英語，或是最近美思的Danny也有在組織類似這樣的語言交換活動羣，可以他的微信meisionline來諮詢！
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